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<span class=large>HOSEA</span>
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CHAPTER 8
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Both Israel and Judah have forsaken the Lord—The Lord has written the great things of his law to Ephraim.
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<i><span class='smallcaps'>Set</span></i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/8/1a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB shofar, or ram’s horn.">trumpet</a> to thy mouth.  <i>He shall come</i> as an <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/8/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 28: 49.">eagle</a> against the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, because they have <sup>c</sup><a href="hosea/8/1c" mark="c" type="A" title="Hosea 6: 7.">transgressed</a> my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
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Israel shall cry unto me, My <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/8/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 7: 21 (21-23); Luke 6: 46; D&C 112: 26.">God</a>, we <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/8/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Titus 1: 16.">know</a> thee.
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Israel hath cast off <i>the thing that is</i> good: the <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/8/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 17: 5 (1-6, 24).">enemy</a> shall pursue him.
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They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/8/4a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE I acknowledged them not.">I</a> knew <i>it</i> not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
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&#182; Thy <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/8/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 12: 28 (28-30); Acts 7: 41.">calf</a>, O Samaria, hath cast <i>thee</i> off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long <i>will it be</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/8/5b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR before they become clean.">ere</a> they attain to innocency?
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For from Israel <i>was</i> it also: the workman made it; therefore it <i>is</i> not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
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For they have sown the wind, and they shall <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/8/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mosiah 7: 30; D&C 6: 33.">reap</a> the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
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Israel is <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/8/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 10: 12; Jacob 5: 13 (13-14).">swallowed</a> up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/8/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 31: 12; Jer. 22: 28; Jer. 48: 38.">vessel</a> wherein <i>is</i> no pleasure.
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For they are gone up to <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/8/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 15: 19; 2 Kgs. 17: 6 (3-6); Ezek. 23: 5.">Assyria</a>, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/8/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 16: 33 (33, 41).">hired</a> lovers.
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Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
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Because Ephraim hath made many <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/8/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 34: 13; Hosea 10: 1.">altars</a> to <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/8/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Hypocrisy.">sin</a>, altars shall be unto him to sin.
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I have <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/8/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Scriptures, Writing of.">written</a> to him the great things of my <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/8/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 4: 1 (1-2), 6 (6-8).">law</a>, <i>but</i> they were counted as a strange thing.
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They sacrifice flesh <i>for</i> the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat <i>it; but</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/8/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Amos 5: 22 (21-22).">accepteth</a> them not; now will he <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/8/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Amos 8: 7.">remember</a> their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to <sup>c</sup><a href="hosea/8/13c" mark="c" type="A" title="Deut. 28: 68 (58-59, 68); Hosea 9: 3 (1-3); Hosea 11: 5.">Egypt</a>.
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For Israel hath forgotten his <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/8/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 17: 7; Isa. 45: 9.">Maker</a>, and buildeth <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/8/14b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR palaces, or great buildings.">temples</a>; and Judah hath multiplied <sup>c</sup><a href="hosea/8/14c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR fortified.">fenced</a> cities: but I will send a <sup>d</sup><a href="hosea/8/14d" mark="d" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 25: 9.">fire</a> upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
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